The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rectory, Otten Road, Belchamp Otten, CO10 7BG
- OS grid reference
- TL 802 417
- Coordinates
- 52.04478, 0.62744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is an 18th-century house featuring a timber frame with plaster and a hipped grey slate roof. It has two flat-headed dormers that contain small paned casements. The building is two storeys high with attics, and the first floor has a range of four windows featuring small paned vertical sliding sashes. On the ground floor, there are two small paned vertical sliding sashes on the right side, and an angled bay on the left with a parapet and glazed margins leading to French doors. The central entrance has double doors with glazed margins above the top lights and is sheltered by a flat canopy supported by brackets. There are four gault brick chimney stacks, and the interior boasts a good 18th-century staircase along with other notable details.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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